Archaeologist Overview

Do you ever wonder how people in the medieval ages lived? Was History your favourite subject in school? Does everything old fascinate you? If the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom left an everlasting impression on you, then you should consider being an archaeologist. 

 

Archaeology can be an extremely interesting field of study to quench your curiosity about the past and its secrets. It is a multi-disciplinary science involving a great deal of training in subjects like Chemistry, Anthropology, Geology, etc. 

 

Learning about the past civilisations involves knowing about every aspect - the lifestyles, the architecture of the regions, cultural influences, etc. This makes Archaeology a very engrossing and fulfilling career, as well as one of the most demanding and competitive branches of social sciences.

 

Archaeologists in this line of work excavate, preserve, study and classify artifacts of the near and distant past in order to understand the ancient civilisations. It is mainly thanks to them that all our old artifacts and objects of historic importance are preserved. 

 

The work of an Archaeologist is very slow and meticulous. Moreover, most of the archaeological sites are situated in earth's extreme temperature zones. Here, you will often have to spend hours in extreme climatic conditions carefully dusting a fragment of a Harappan building with a toothbrush or examine thousands of tiny, nearly identical chipped stone axes. 

 

One of the major aspects of the job of an Archaeologist is epigraphy. This involves taking ink impressions of ancient inscriptions on copper plates, stupas, rocks, monuments, etc. and decoding or deciphering them. Another equally important area of work is numismatics, which is the study of old coins, paper money and items such as medals for the purpose of understanding and restructuring the past. 

 

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